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The Judicial Council of California, with support from the Public Welfare Foundation, produced a nine minute video about the San Francisco's Access Center that explains what a self-help center is and how it provides triage and self-help services to self-represented litigants. What is Self-Help? Video About San Francisco's Access Center can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUmmDUbjik

Year published: 2017

Document Author: California Judicial Council Center for Families Children & the Courts

The 2017 Esri User Conference will be held July 10-14, 2017 in San Diego, California. For more information, please see the Esri Conference event page.    

The 2017 FedGIS Conference will be held February 13-14, 2017 in Washington, DC. Katherine Alteneder, SRLN Executive Director, and Alison Davis-Holland, SRLN GIS/Data Lead, will be featuring our story map entitled "America's Civil Courts: Whom Do We Serve?" along with Allen Carroll, the Esri Program Manager for Storytelling Esri Story Maps: How to Tell Your Story Using Esri's Storytelling Apps

White House LAIR released its first annual report entitled Expanding Access to Justice, Strengthening Federal Programs (opens as PDF), which is also available at https://www.justice.gov/atj/page/file/913981/download. From the executive summary:  

Year published: 2016

Document Author: DOJ, Allie Yang-Green

Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and data can provide useful information to drive decision making in the justice community. Here are some resources that can help.   Data Geospatial datasets at data.gov ArcGIS Online

Year published: 2016

Document Author: SRLN

In coordination with GIS Day and National Geographic's Geography Awareness Week, the Self-Represented Litigation Network (srln.org)  has hosted and recorded a webinar on some of the ways geographic information systems (GIS) technology is being used to engage and empower the justice community. In the video, we briefly describe how GIS works and then we will explore what is possible when you activate the hidden geographic information in your data.

Year published: 2016

Document Author: Alison Davis-Holland

Meet Gina, the online assistant that is helping tens of thousands of people at the Los Angeles Superior Court handle their traffic citations online. When visiting the traffic section of the court's website, litigants can interact with Gina to pay a traffic ticket, register for traffic school, or schedule a court date. Gina is multilingual and can help court users in English, Armenian, Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Year published: 2016

Document Author: cristina llop

Request for Training Proposals for the 2017 SRLN Conference February 23-24, 2017 at the Judicial Council of California Building San Francisco, California

Year published: 2016

Document Author: Jasmine Schwab-Doyle

America's Civil Courts: Whom Do We Serve? is a geospatial story map produced by the Self-Represented Litigation Network to better understand local needs.

Year published: 2023

Document Author: Alison Davis-Holland, Katherine Alteneder, SRLN

We are delighted to announce that the Legal Design Lab at Stanford Law School will become the new permanent home for the SRLN community, specifically the listserve, working groups, and conference. We believe that this is an especially appropriate place for the SRLN community to reside because of the Lab’s commitment to user-centered design and Stanford Law School’s broad commitment to access to justice.

Year published: 2022

Document Author: SRLN